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Do you have trouble getting to sleep or staying asleep? You are not alone! According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, approximately 40 million people in the US suffer from chronic sleep problems! Additionally, another 20 million people report occasional sleep problems!

So what’s a person to do? Count sheep, drink hot milk?

Well, if you’re sick of counting sheep and the thought of hot milk doesn’t appeal to you, try a Nordic Hot Tub for better sleep!

How does that help?

First, let’s look at what makes you sleep. When your body is getting ready to wind down for a good night of sleep, it naturally reduces your temperature, releases melatonin and relaxes your body. All these help to carry your weary mind and body into the land of dreams. If something disrupts these events, your system goes back into ‘day’ mode and won’t allow you to relax properly and fall asleep.

A Nordic Hot Tub can help you go into ‘sleep’ mode in a few different ways….read on!

Nordic’s whirlpool therapy will create a high volume, indirect pressure, hot water therapy over your entire body which sets the stage for total relaxation. Your mind will unwind to the sound and sensation of water swirling around you, further enhancing your relaxation.

After your soak session, you dry off and hop into bed, your core temperature is now elevated and you feel wonderfully relaxed! Your body will begin to cool down quickly, signaling the release of melatonin and ‘sleep’ mode, sending you into a nice comfortable sleep.

Additionally, if you have aches and pains which interfere with finding that comfortable sleep position, a soak session in a Nordic will help ease your joints and muscles. Our DTS™ will target those problem areas with specific jet action to help relax and relieve muscle stress.

You’ll notice that when you begin to sleep better, you feel better. And, when you feel better, your quality of life improves!

Health Benefits is a series of blog posts to provide Nordic Hot Tub Owners with information about how their Nordic Hot Tub can benefit their health. This is not intended to be a comprehensive health guide nor can it be regarded in any way as health advice or a diagnosis. If you have health questions, contact your physician or a trained health professional.

However, there may be special circumstances depending on which type of diabetes you have or if you have other underlying health issues. As always, we strongly encourage you to talk to your doctor before 'jumping in' so to speak.

But how can a hot tub help diabetics?

The stress relief and improved circulation can be beneficial but there are additional considerations for diabetics. Our friends at Swim University have written a great article on this subject. Click here for the article.

Health Benefits is a series of blog posts to provide Nordic Hot Tub Owners with information about how their Nordic Hot Tub can benefit their health. This is not intended to be a comprehensive health guide nor can it be regarded in any way as health advice or a diagnosis. If you have health questions, contact your physician or a trained health professional.

First, let’s talk about stress. Everyone experiences stress in their own unique way. How does stress affect you? Think of what happens when you get stressed. Do your muscles tense? Does your blood pressure go up? Does your heart race or do you get headaches? Do you have jaw pain from clenching your teeth? Or, do you just check out and experience a mental fog? These are only a few of the ways individuals react to stress. (Read more about stress symptoms.)

But how can a hot tub help? A Nordic Hot Tub can help relieve stress in a number of ways!

When you enter the warm water of your Nordic Hot Tub, your body becomes buoyant and almost weightless in the water. With this reprieve from gravity, the muscles don’t need to work as hard to support your body, allowing them to relax. Add to that Nordic’s DTS™ (Dual Therapy System), a combination of high volume whirlpool flow and targeted direct pressure jets, you will receive the ultimate, relaxing hydrotherapy massage to further relax you, release endorphins and relieve stress.

Once your muscles have relaxed, you may experience a reduction in blood pressure and begin to feel an overall sense of well-being. If you had a headache when you began your hot tub session, you may notice it beginning to subside as your jaw, neck and shoulder muscles unwind.

As you immerse in the warm water and your muscles release their tension, you will also notice the calming sounds of the water itself as it ripples and swirls around you. If you have the Northern Lights Package™ in your hot tub, you will visually experience the soothing effects of the lights as they gently change from one color to the next.

The humidity of the hot tub will assist in clearing sinuses and opening breathing passages. This helps respiratory health by allieviating sinus pressure and congestion.

An added benefit of soaking in your Nordic Hot Tub, especially later in the evening, can be improved sleep. After a 20 to 30 minute soak session, your muscles are relaxed, your mind has calmed and your breathing passages have opened up, your body is ready to fall asleep. When you experience a better quality of sleep, your body and your mind are better equipped to handle the stressors of everyday life.

So, as we pointed out, a Nordic Hot Tub will give you an all-encompassing sensory experience by using water, heat, sound and light to aid your body in releasing tension and relieving stress.

Add some calm to your life in a Nordic Hot Tub! You'll be so happy you did!

Health Benefits is a series of blog posts to provide Nordic Hot Tub Owners with information about how their Nordic Hot Tub can benefit their health. This is not intended to be a comprehensive health guide nor can it be regarded in any way as health advice or a diagnosis. If you have health questions, contact your physician or a trained health professional.

Health Benefits is a series of blog posts to provide Nordic Hot Tub Owners with information about how their Nordic Hot Tub can benefit their health. This is not intended to be a comprehensive health guide nor can it be regarded in any way as health advice or a diagnosis. If you have health questions, contact your physician or a trained health professional.

What causes stress in your life? How do you deal with it? Are you a fighter or a flighter?

The bad news is we all have stress to some degree and, if we haven’t learned to manage it, the toll on our health can be significant.

The good news is there are relatively simple things you can do to help manage how stress affects you, your life and wellbeing.

April is National Stress Awareness Month. You’re probably saying, “I’m already aware of my stress!” Well, that’s a good thing! The first step is awareness. It’s the second step that is a bit harder…making changes to your lifestyle that will reduce your stress levels.

A simply great way to help reduce stress is to relax in a hot tub!

Hydrotherapy dates back to ancient Greece but it was the Romans who popularized soaking in hot baths. Today’s hot tubs are much more sophisticated in their approach to hot water therapy but, the results are still the same…stress relief!

For centuries, people have travelled many miles to soak in heated waters and natural springs.

Hot tubs bring the comfort and restorative powers of heated, pulsating water jets to homeowners. Today's hot tubs are and swim spas utilize adnaced technology to improve the quality of your life at home.

The IRS stated in its opinion letter Index No.: 213.05-00, " Section 213(a) allows as a [tax] deduction the expenses paid during the taxable year for medical care of the taxpayer, spouse, or dependent. Under § 213(d)(1)(A), an expense is for 'medical care' if its primary purpose is the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease. Notice the words "primary purpose". Because a hot tub or spa is of a particularly personal nature, you must establish that your hot tub is "primarily" for the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease before you can deduct the cost of your hot tub on your tax return. You may be able to claim your hot tub as a tax deduction even though you also derive pleasure from it and even though someone else such as your spouse may use the spa, as long as you are buying the hot tub or spa primarily to relieve pain due to an injury or disease.

More Hot Tub History...

The word SPA - "medicinal or mineral spring," 1626, from name of health resort in eastern Belgium, known since 14c., that featured mineral springs believed to have curative properties. The place name is from Walloon espa "spring, fountain."

Verse 2 of Genesis speaks of water - "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters."

Franklin D. Roosevelt received therapeutic baths and muscle treatments for his debilitating pain of polio during his administration from 1933-1945.

The first wooden hot tubs began to appear in the 1960's in California. Inspired by the Japanese ofuru, these early prototypes were still made from used oak barrels, wine tanks and olive vats from nearby wineries.

When you think relaxation - you can think of a hot tub.There are many benefits to sitting in an hot tub. You don't need a research study to understand the health benefits to a good soak in a spa.

Headaches, Stress, and Sleep

A hot tub can stimulate the release of our stress reducing endorphins. A hot tub’s hydrotherapy jets also dilate blood vessels to help prevent headaches. And when it comes to falling asleep faster and getting a deep night's sleep, the National Sleep Foundation clearly states, "soaking in hot water, such as a hot tub or bath, before retiring to bed can ease the transition into a deeper sleep."

Types of Arthritis:

Simply, it is using water to revitalize and restore health.

Hydrotherapy is the use of water to revitalize, maintain, and restore health. When we think of hydrotherapy, we typically envision whirlpools, spas, hot tubs, saunas, steam baths, foot baths and hot water compresses. Water healing is one of the oldest, least expensive and safest ways to treat many ailments.

You can spend thousands of dollars on natural, or pharmaceutical treatments for Fibromyalgia.

Today we look to the drug manufacturers to cure our ills when often times their solution is only symptom relief. Fibromyalgia is one of those conditions. Little is known about the cause and less is known about a cure.

Although the advertising for Fibromyalgia prescription drugs is new, the condition is not new. There are many names for this condition given all around the world and over hundreds of years of medicine. There is a tremendous controversy over its existence, and even more over it’s criteria for diagnosis. Our aging population is seeing more of this condition and their basic symptoms. Being concerned about drug costs leads one to want to spend your dollars of specific remedies with overall health benefits.

Read more about the costs for symptom relief and an alternative that has few - if any - side effects - a Nordic Hot Tub:

Soaking in a hot tub is a well established treatment for many ailments.

Many health care providers recommend the following for maladies and conditions that are both chronic and acute:

Improve Circulation

Reduce Stress

Increase Flexibility

If you look at any body of medical literature or research, one of the most common recommendation is to Reduce Stress. How many times to you hear about a practitioner suggesting you improve your life habits and eliminate stress for: heart ailments, arthritis, fibromyalgia, head aches, migraines, nervous disorders, tinnitus, and general anxiety.

Problems with Circulation

Circulatory system problems arise when there is limited blood flow to the legs, hands, heart and rest of the body. The blood vessels become blocked as a fatty substance called plaque builds up and hardens and constricts the walls of the arteries and veins. This interrupts the normal flow of blood through the vessels and results in poor circulation.

A variety of conditions can be brought on by poor circulation such as high blood pressure, hypertension, stroke, varicose veins, peripheral artery disease, heart disease, kidney damage, aneurysms, arteriosclerosis, Raynaud’s disease and phlebitis.

Tips to help relieve your back pain

Chronic back pain can come from an injury, a disorder, or from aging: muscle strain or spasm, sprains of ligaments (attaches bone to bone), joint problems or a "slipped disk." Of all problems, the most common cause for back pain is using your back muscles in activities you're not used to, lifting something heavy or maybe yard work.

"We believe Nordic has the Best Hot Tubs for Back pain on the market today."

An aching back nags what ever you do. Your back moves when you walk, sit, stand and breathe, so what ever you do seems to aggravate the pain in your back. The most common area of the back is lower back pain and then pain in the shoulders and neck.

A reader recently wrote in requesting more information about a condition called Polymyalgia Rhuematica. My article ideas often come from the readers who would like the readership to be aware of a certain condition or would like to know more information on a certain topic.

A diagnosis of Polymyalgia Rheumatica is more certain than that of fibromyalgia (FMS) because its characteristics are more certain, even though they have many of the same symptoms.

Arthritis is the name given to a group of related diseases, which include osteoarthritis (degenerative arthritis), rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, lupus and fibromyalgia. In its various forms, arthritis affects the young and old, both sexes and all races. Although there are over 100 kinds of arthritis, they share one thing: they all rob otherwise healthy people of their quality of life by making even the simplest of movements painful. This pain is caused by inflammation of the lining of the body's joints.

How do we treat the illness that affects so many people? On answer is with drugs, such as the "NSAIDs."